Cobalt blue, Azure, deep and dazzling all at once don?t you think, particularly when they dance around with it like that, so much ease in their movements, but it really isn?t that easy, what they?re doing, they just make it look like it is, a lot of training you see, the kind of training that used to be expected in places like this, one couldn?t just say what came to mind, it had to be said beautifully, one needed wit and no little charm, now they don?t even open their mouths, and that blue, it wasn?t always just a pleasure to look at, it was a deadly game Cobalt was, named after a German sprite, an angry little gremlin that lived in the mountains and hated visitors so much that the Arsenic in the Cobalt mixture would eat away at the miners? feet, and tear apart their lungs, but it looked beautiful on the canvases on the walls of all the Salons, and on the hemlines of dresses, and on letters that they would write to each other in intrigue that would look blank until they were heated and their slanderous words would appear by candle-light, blue lines written beautifully about the blue room, hard work and dangerous though it was.

I have a little vignette to paint for you, it?s helpful you see, an instruction on these dancers, and their delicate moves. It?s a scene, an atmosphere, you see, that they are repeating, again and again. They speak as one, dance as many, and they have a nose for luxury, I tell you they can always sniff out what is genuine and what is not, they have an eye for elaborate artifice and no patience for dreary imitation, in you and me, whoever they come across, and they let you know. Somewhere past, in a room like the inside of a rock of Lapis Lazuli, somewhere between the Tuileries gardens and the Louvre, four men approached them in greeting, hoping for a dance to a fashionable minuet, and, like judges at their own court of subtle suggestion they delivered their verdicts by hand and foot and mouth for everyone to see: Leg up and hand outstretched they delightedly say ?Monsieur, I am honored to present you my most humble respects in this dance?; leaning to the left with their hands pointing up they respectfully twitter ?Monsieur I am your most humble servant, follow me?; shoulders slouched and falling to their left they politely retreat with ?Monsieur, I am honored to greet you. Perhaps another time?; and finally, in the presence of ill-concealed pretension and failed elegance, collapsing into one another they say with ice ?Hello, Monsieur?.

The text from the performance was also published in Art Licks magazine, and was featured on Hive London.